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Topping Up
How you top up credit for an online game if you have no credit card? Scratch cards available from internet cafe about 60 km from Beijing (above) and a wider selection from an electronics market in Beijing, below.
Whilst topping up game credits by mobile phone is possible (it may even already be offered by the game companies - I've not researched the topic), it is a less compelling proposition where most people in the market are using pre-pay.
Writing from Tokyo | January 19, 2006 | Permalink
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Hey Jan (we met very briefly at Ubicomp, dunno if you remember) -- this is a topic I'm quite interested in, and was curious if you could clarify this part:
Whilst topping up game credits by mobile phone is possible (it may even already be offered by the game companies - I've not researched the topic), it is a less compelling proposition where most people in the market are using pre-pay.
Do you mean that the people who would top up game credits are already using pre-pay for their keitai? Or that they are already using it for the games themselves? What makes it a less compelling proposition?
Sorry if I'm being dense. And many thanks for yr blog, which is equal parts poetry and prognosis.
Posted by: Kevin Slavin at February 6, 2006 11:10 AM
